[bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering committee

[Shahzad Ahmad]

+1. Did Rafik agree?

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From:  Joana Varon <joana at varonferraz.com>
Date:  Thursday, December 5, 2013 at 4:41 PM
To:  Anja Kovacs <anja at internetdemocracy.in>
Cc:  William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>, Jeremy Malcolm
<jeremy at ciroap.org>, Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>,
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Subject:  Re: [bestbits] Call for expressions of interest: 1net steering
committee

I agree with Anja, on both:
1) nominating Rafik and
2) reconsidering nominating all the 4 Brazilians to 1net (I'm not even sure
they all want/are available to fulfill this role, a question to double
check, I guess. Carol, Lau, CA?). I can also step back if needed.
best
joana


On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:05 AM, Anja Kovacs <anja at internetdemocracy.in>
wrote:
> I agree that Rafik would be a good choice.
> 
> What I'm not so clear about is why the four Brazilian liaisons should also
> continue to be de facto representatives in the 1net Steering Committee, if
> such a thing is indeed going to be put into place immediately (I quite liked
> Andrew Sullivan's suggestions on the 1net email list to simply let people take
> up responsibility for things they are interested in for now).
> 
> As Jeremy argued, when there are really good candidates, I'm ok with people
> being representatives on both the Brazil committees and on 1net, and I can
> imagine that it would be good to have one or two Brazilians on both, to make
> the link. But now that 1net has been delinked in many ways from Brazil, surely
> it would be good to have a broader representation there? Even if I am sure
> they'd all do a great job, somehow having four out of five 1net reps being
> Brazilian just doesn't seem like the right balance to me....
> 
> What do others think?
> 
> Best,
> Anja
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 5 December 2013 15:51, William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> Rafik is the elected chair of NCSG, which comprises a) NCUC, with 313 members
>> from 78 countries, including 88 noncommercial organizations and 225
>> individuals; b) NPOC, with 52 nonprofit organizations in a couple dozen
>> countries; and c) some free floating individual members that are in neither
>> constituency.  NCSG dwarfs in size most other networks in this space,
>> operates in a transparent and accountable manner, and has ongoing working
>> relations with other stakeholder groups and ICANN, so one would think he¹d be
>> an obvious choice.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Bill
>> 
>> On Dec 4, 2013, at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 4 Dec 2013, at 11:37 pm, Carolina Rossini <carolina.rossini at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Robin Gross? Rafik?
>>>> I have a feeling that could be interesting to have the same people in
>>>> different committees to ensure that we have clear information (or make the
>>>> questions to try to gather better information based on a cross-fora
>>>> observation). I am just not sure they are part of BB. They are part of
>>>> other CS coalitions...
>>> 
>>> That isn't necessarily a barrier.  But in the case of Robin Gross, she is
>>> not eligible as she is on the joint committee.  Rafik seems like a good
>>> choice, if he is willing (we'll ask).
>>> 
>>> Also, the whole question about these nominations are necessary has just been
>>> reopened on the 1net list, so who knows whether things may change... at
>>> least, we are hoping to get more time to come back with names (perhaps until
>>> 16 December).
>> 
>> **********************************************************
>> William J. Drake
>> International Fellow & Lecturer
>>   Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ
>>   University of Zurich, Switzerland
>> Chair, Noncommercial Users Constituency,
>>   ICANN, www.ncuc.org <http://www.ncuc.org>
>> william.drake at uzh.ch (w), wjdrake at gmail.com (h),
>>   www.williamdrake.org <http://www.williamdrake.org>
>> ***********************************************************
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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